Actions to support the development of medicines for children

Actions to support the development of medicines for children

The closing report of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and European Commission (DG Health and Food Safety) action plan on paediatrics has been recently published.   During the past four years, several initiatives were taken to increase the efficiency of the...

COVID’s Lasting Consequences for Kids

COVID’s Lasting Consequences for Kids

Dr. Jeremy Faust, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today has interviewed Dr. Zachary Rubin, allergist and immunologist of Oak Brook Allergists in Illinois, to discuss the lasting effects of COVID-19 on pediatric health.  According to Dr. Rubin there is not a single clinical...

Becoming a Leader: Donato Bonifazi on ‘Managing Trials’

Becoming a Leader: Donato Bonifazi on ‘Managing Trials’

Dr Donato Bonifazi, in his role as iCAN Advisory Board Member, has participated in the International Children’s Advisory Network (iCAN), “Becoming a Leader” short videos series to talk about the challenges of conducting clinical trials for and with the paediatric...

Adolescent Inclusion Decision Tree

Adolescent Inclusion Decision Tree

The European Forum for Good Clinical Practice (EFGCP) Children’s Medicines Working Party (CMWP) has developed an open-access “Adolescent Inclusion Decision Tree” to be used by trial sponsors, trial investigators, IRBs/ethics committees, and health regulatory agencies,...

Project MADAM (Model Adjusted Doses for All Mothers)

Project MADAM (Model Adjusted Doses for All Mothers)

Project MADAM (Model Adjusted Doses for All Mothers) is a collaboration between Radboud UMC and Maastricht University Medical Centres in the Netherlands and the Dutch Teratology Information Service (Lareb) with funding from the Gates Foundation that addresses the gap...

Reducing long-term complications in preterm infants

Reducing long-term complications in preterm infants

In a new study, a team of researchers from Inserm, University Hospital Lille, and Université de Lille at the Lille Neuroscience and Cognition laboratory has opened up interesting avenues to improve the prognosis of preterm infants.   By conducting research into...

#ACT4RARE Toolkit – New UN Resolution Toolkit Launch

#ACT4RARE Toolkit – New UN Resolution Toolkit Launch

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The Second Paediatric Expert Patients Training Workshop was a success!

The Second Paediatric Expert Patients Training Workshop was a success!

The workshop organized by the TEDDY Network in collaboration with EURORDIS and the Sant Joan de Déu Research Foundation in the framework of the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD), was held the past July 11th -15th at the University of Lyon (France)...